Correspondence, 1838-1859.

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Correspondence, 1838-1859.

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Photostats of correspondence of Delia Bacon, mostly from the 1850's and chiefly concerning her theory that the plays of Shakespeare were written by Francis Bacon. Correspondents include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Benjamin Silliman Sr., Harriet Beecher Stowe, and her brother Leonard Bacon.

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Delia Salter Bacon (b. February 2, 1811, Tallmadge, Ohio-d. September 2, 1859, Hartford, Connecticut), American author and lecturer. She advanced the theory that Shakespeare's plays were the work of Francis Bacon in her book The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded (1857)....

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